Why is Yahoo Mail behind in security? They don't support HTTPS yet. Gmail and many others do. I'm shocked that Yahoo still doesn't have HTTPS. Why is this? What is the logic behind not supporting HTTPS in their mail client?

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The encryption takes CPU time, which means more and/or bigger servers, which cost more money. Supporting HTTPS may also require a more complex infrastructure for load balancing and caching. Since most users don't care much about security, I guess Yahoo decided that it's not worth the investment.

I believe they are now rolling this out with the recent redesign.
Go to Options -> Mail Options and click "Turn on SSL"
Take a look at these two request pages that are tracking it: getsatisfaction.com, suggestions.yahoo.com